Golden Knights troll Ducks with expansion question

The Vegas Golden Knights, or a friend of the Golden Knights we should say, would like to know how the Anaheim Ducks will approach the expansion draft. The Vegas Golden Knights, or a friend of the Golden Knights we should say, would like to know how the Anaheim Ducks will The Ducks' Twitter account asked users if they had questions about the draft and a certain Golden Knights account piped up.So @AnaheimDucks. 7 forwards and 3 defensemen or 8 skaters? We're asking for a friend. https://t.

Protected Lists * Clubs will have two options for players they wish to protect in the Expansion by 5:00 P.M. ET on June 20 and the announcement of their selections will be released on made on June 21. The Las Vegas franchise's First Round selection in the 2017 NHL Draft will be determined in

A Sportsnet report on Wednesday provided a first look at the list of 66 players who will be off limits to the Vegas Now that the NHL 's expansion franchise (finally) has an identity, attention turns toward the Any player who possesses the NMC at the time of the draft must be protected by his team

On Sunday morning, the NHL released a list of every player protected for the expansion draft. Each of the existing 30 teams had the option to protect either seven forwards, three defencemen and a goaltender, or a combination of eight skaters (forwards/defencemen) and a goaltender.

Vegas can now begin the process of selecting its roster, with the deadline to submit those picks to the NHL head office and NHLPA coming at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday morning. All of the Golden Knights’ picks will be announced during the NHL Awards Show on Wednesday night. You can watch that on Sportsnet starting at 8 p.m. ET.

Options Around the Expansion Draft

Options Around the Expansion Draft .It’s a rare occurrence when all 30 NHL GM’s have to play a game with specific rules and goals and challenges which will impact their rosters. The entry draft is the only other event that comes to mind where everyone has to participate, but even in that situation, some teams are more invested than others. The rest of the events, including day-to-day roster management, free agency and trade deadline, only impact specific teams and is optional for managers to participate in. That’s what makes the expansion draft so interesting.

The 2017 NHL Expansion Draft is an expansion draft that will be conducted by the National Hockey League on June 18–20, 2017 to fill the roster of the upcoming Vegas Golden Knights. The team's selections will be announced on June 21 during the NHL Awards ceremony at T-Mobile Arena.

Let’s give a quick rundown of the rules of the expansion draft : 30 teams will ante up one player to the Vegas Golden Knights. Those 30 NHL franchises will have the choice of picking which players they’d like to protect from expansion .

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In about 30 minutes, the NHL is set to approve and release protected lists for all 30 already-established NHL teams. The @GoldenKnights will choose a total of 30 players in Wednesday's NHL Expansion Draft .

NHL to unveil protected and available player lists for expansion draft . * Vegas must select players with an aggregate expansion draft value that is between 60 to 100 per cent of the prior season's upper limit for the salary cap.

Report: Islanders have deal in place with Vegas; first-round pick involved .
The New York Islanders have a deal in place to send their first-round draft pick to the Vegas Golden Knights, according to a report from Arthur Staple of Newsday. The deal would push Vegas towards selecting a specific player from the Islanders’ unprotected list — believed to be winger Nikolay Kulemin. The 30-year-old had 12 goals and 11 assists in 72 games last season for New York.Multiple sources also told Newsday that there may be another component to the deal that the Islanders would send to the Golden Knights.New York is due to pick 15th in the NHL Draft, which takes place Friday in Chicago.

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Protected Lists * Clubs will have two options for players they wish to protect in the Expansion by 5:00 P.M. ET on June 20 and the announcement of their selections will be released on made on June 21. The Las Vegas franchise's First Round selection in the 2017 NHL Draft will be determined in

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NHL to unveil protected and available player lists for expansion draft . * Vegas must select players with an aggregate expansion draft value that is between 60 to 100 per cent of the prior season's upper limit for the salary cap.

By next week, the 31st NHL team will have its first full, official roster — although even after the Vegas Golden Knights take a player from each team they are expected to trade some of them 5:00 p.m. ET marks the deadline for teams to submit their expansion draft protections lists to the league office.

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*The NHL released its list of players who will be exempt from the expansion draft awhile back. Now, some folks are a bit confused it seems. This isn’t a list of players teams must protect (although the majority will need to be).

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In an effort to make it fair for Vegas , the league has thrown a veil of secrecy over the entire pre- expansion draft period. The deadline is Friday, June 16 at noon to get a player waived and then bought out before protection lists have to go to the NHL .

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